In this reading list I have tried to include all the major
pantheist thinkers and major texts
from East and West, together with essential books on religious philosophy, environment,
and science. These are the best books I know of, and they are the ones I use myself.
Where possible I have chosen cheap paperback editions.

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the UK page) to Amazon UK.
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Harrison, Paul, Elements of Pantheism, Element
Books, London and New York, 1999.The only overview of pantheist history, theory and practice in
print. Includes a pantheist calendar and almanac. Click here for full
description. For other books by Paul Harrison, see below
Levine, Michael, Pantheism,
Routledge, London and New York, 1994.A philosopher's analysis of mainline pantheism. Useful if
you're rich enough to afford it.

De Bary, William, ed., The Buddhist
Tradition, Vintage Books, New York, 1972.Very useful book of readings, including all schools from
Theravada to Zen.Cleary, Thomas, The Flower Ornament
Scripture, Shambhala, Boulder, 1984.The astonishing scripture that gave rise to Hua-Yen Buddhism.
Perhaps the most inspiring of all Buddhist scriptures.Suzuki, Daisetz, Essays in Zen
Buddhism vol 1, Grove Press, New York, 1986. The classic exposition of basic
Zen history and concepts.

Chan, Wing-Tsit, A Sourcebook of
Chinese Philosophy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1953A compendious book of important readingsLegge, James, The Texts of Taoism, Dover, 1962.Contains the Tao te Ching and the Chuang Tzu.Wong, Eva, Taoism, Shambhala, Boston & London, 1997 A good and simple basic introduction.Wu,
John, Tao Teh
Ching, Shambhala, Boston, 1989.Everyone should have at least one edition of the Tao te Ching, and this is a good
one.
Palmer, Martin, The
Book of Chuang Tzu, Penguin Arkana, London and New York, 1996. A good
readable edition of a work astoundingly rich in earthy wisdom and dazzling style.

Kahn, Charles, The Art and Thought
of Heraclitus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979.All the surviving fragments of the greatest of all materialist
philosophers, with an excellent intro and commentary on each fragment.Long, A. A. & Sedley, D. N., eds, The Hellenistic
Philosophers, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987.Comprehensive book of readings from Stoic, Epicurean and
Skeptic philosophers. Don't be put off by the title.Barnes, Jonathan, Early Greek
Philosophy, Penguin, London and New York, 1987.Good and exhaustive selections of all the main pre-socratics
from Thales to Democritus. Marcus
Aurelius, Meditations,
Penguin, London and New York, 1969.The classic Stoic text. Superbly written, deeply moving and
wise.Lucretius, On the Nature of the
Universe, trs R. E. Latham, Penguin, London and New York, 1994.A wonderful iconoclastic materialist in the modern mould, but
often lyrical about nature and the universe. Very influential on later pantheists.Plotinus, The
Enneads, (abridged) ed John Dillon, 1991.
The greatest statement of emanationist-type neo-platonic pantheism.

Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings,
translated by Oliver Davies, Penguin Books, London and New York, 1994. Raymond E. Brown, The New Jerome
Biblical Commentary, Geoffrey Chapman, 1990Excellent thorough text with scholarly commentary on every verse in the bible,
with surveys of biblical criticism, history of Israel and Christianity, theology, and lots
more. Great background for debates.

Bruno, Giordano, Cause, Principle and
Unity, ed., Richard Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.Basic text, often quite hard going.
Spinoza, Benedict, Ethics , 1995. The core work of Spinoza's system.Spinoza, Benedict, A
Theologico-Political Treatise, Dover Books, New York, 1951.More readable and often more powerful than the Ethics.Toland, John, Pantheistikon, London, 1721, and Letters to Serena, London, 1704.Difficult to find, but of tremendous historical importance.
Hegel, Georg, The
Philosophy of History, Hackett Publishing Co., 1988.Founding text of what Whitehead turned into process theology. Wordsworth,
William, The
Prelude, Penguin, London and New York, 1996 The poetic autobiography of the greatest of the British
pantheist poets.
Shelley, The
Necessity of Atheism & Other Essays, Freethought Library Shelley would have been a scientific pantheist had he been
alive today.Shelley, Complete
Poems, Modern Library. Ode to the West Wind is highly pantheistic.Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Essays and Poems,
Library of America College ed, 1996The essay Nature gives the nub of Emerson's
transcendentalist pantheism.
Whitman, Walt, Leaves
of Grass, Penguin Books, 1997.Especially Song of Myself.
Ernst Haeckel, The
Riddle of the Universe, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, 1992.The first modern book of materialist pantheism [Haeckel was
also a racist eugenicist, but these ideas are very subdued in The Riddle.]Robinson Jeffers, Selected Poems,
Stanford University Press, 1989.Jeffers was a poet of raw nature, very close to scientific
pantheism.Calaprice,
Alice, The
Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1996.An excellent selection including Einstein's pantheistic views
on religion.De Chardin, Teilhard, The Phenomenon of
Man, Harper Collins, 1975.Teilhard was a panentheist rather than a pantheist, but his
scientific background makes this stimulating reading. Read with your critical faculties
turned to High.

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Otto, Rudolf, The Idea of the Holy,
trs John Harvey, Oxford University Press, New York, 1968.The enduring classic about what exactly makes those religious
hairs at the back of your neck stand on end.Hume, David, Dialogues Concerning
Natural Religion, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. A wonderful ageless classic of skepticism, full of solid
arguments against theism.

Barlow, Connie, Green Space, Green
Time, Tackles the problem of bridging the gap between science and
meaning. Readable, personal, clear, and accessible.
Davies, Paul, God
and the New Physics, Penguin Books, New York and London, 1983. Davies,
Paul, The Mind of
God, Penguin Books, New York and London, 1994Davies' books are full of accessible science, but his
interpretation veers towards conscious design at work in the universe.Ferguson, Kitty, The Fire in the
Equations, Bantam Books, New York and London, 1995 Probably the best overview of modern scientists's forays into
theology.
Regenstein, Lewis, Replenish the Earth,
SCM Press, London, 1991 A full review of the attitude to nature in many religions.
Richardson, W. Mark, Religion and Science,
Routledge, New York and London 1996.A collection covering the history of relations between these
two, and modern interactions from cosmology, quantum physics, chaos theory etc.
White, Andrew, The
Warfare of Science with Theology Wonderful classic and epic review of
how Christianity impeded all branches of science for more than 1500 years.

Eysenck, Hans, Explaining the
Unexplained, Prion, London 1997.Eysenck takes the view that research has shown there's
something out there.Kurtz, Paul, A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology, Prometheus Books, Buffalo,
1985 If this is not still in print, it would be a crying shame.
Good documentation on every aspect of ESP claims.Sagan, Carl, This Demon-Haunted
World, Headline, London, 1996. Sagan's impassioned denunciation of New Age superstition and
anti-science.

Cohen, Michael, Reconnecting with
Nature, Project Nature Connect, Friday Harbor, Washington, 1995.Using nature as psycho-therapy for stress and other mental
problems.Roszak, Theodore, Ecopsychology,
Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1995. Collection of essays on this new approach to linking
individual psychology with the health of the environment.Kabat-Zinn, Jon, Full Catastrophe
Living, Dell Publishing, New York, 1990.Excellent therapy book, based on Zen meditation and awareness,
and facing up to reality rather than escaping it.

Bonnie Blackburn, The Oxford Companion
to the Year, Oxford University Press, 1999. Superb guide to every day week season and ceremony of the year in
most of the world's religions, plus an excellent survey of the history of the calendar.Ian
Hutton, Stations
of the Sun, Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 1996.Detailed survey of the history calendar customs in the
English-speaking world - origins of Easter, Xmas etc.Richards, E. G., Mapping Time,
Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 1998.A very thorough and fascinating study of calendars throughout
history.Roberts, Elizabeth and Amidon, Elias, Earth Prayers,
Harper San Francisco, 1991.If you want to know what to use for pantheist hymns, you might
find some here.Mosley, Ivo, Earth Poems, Harper San Francisco, 1996. See entry for Earth Prayers.
Woods, Richard, Understanding
Mysticism, Image Books, New York, 1980.Though Woods is a Catholic, this is a very good anthology of
studies from all angles.

Albery, Nicholas, The Natural Death
Handbook, Natural death center, London, 1997 (from Amazon UK only). How to arrange for a funeral in harmony with nature, with
guide to making a living will. If you're planning to die sometime, and wish to be in
control of what happens to you, read this book.Blackmore,
Susan, Dying to
Live, Grafton, London, 1993.Naturalistic explanation of Near-Death Experiences.
Williamson, John B., and Schneidman, Edwin, Death: Current
Perspectives, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995.Comprehensive thanatology textbook.

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Nick Herbert, Quantum Reality,
Anchor Books, New York, 1987Herbert gives a rundown on at least eight different
interpretations of quantum physics. The idea that humans observers create reality is only
one of them.
Windley, David, Where
Does the Weirdness go?, Basic Books, New York, 1996.Another down-to-earth book focussing on the crucial but often
forgotten question: how come the weirdness does not apply at macro-level?

Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of
Time, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1998.Massive bestseller more often bought than read.Barrow, John, & Tipler, Frank, The Anthropic
Cosmological Principle, Oxford University Press, 1988.Heavy going but extremely thorough.
Guth, Allan, The
Inflationary Universe, Helix Books, 1998.A very good general rundown on modern cosmology and why
Inflation answers many of the problems (and also raises others)
Smolin, Lee, The
Life of the Cosmos, Oxford University Press, 1998.Presents Smolin's theory that multiple universes evolve
towards suitability for life.

Per Bak, How Nature Works,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997.The science of self-organized criticality.Ball, Philip, The Self-Made
Tapestry, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1999.
The best survey of natural form since D'Arcy Thompson, full of
illustrations.
Gleick, James, Chaos,
1988

Harrison, Paul, Inside the Third
World, Penguin Books, 1992A broad survey of major problems and causes of world poverty
with a first hand reporting from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Harrison, Paul, The
Third Revolution, Penguin Books, 1994 A comprehensive survey of the world population problem and how
it impacts on the environment in all areas from deforestation to climate change..